Posted on 05/09/2020 9:29:28 AM PDT by Candor7
New Brunswick is the first Canadian Province to adopt the therapeutic approach of the Marseille University Hospital and Professor Didier Raoult.
Dr Gabriel Girouard, microbiologist and infectiologist at the Dr-Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital in Moncton, was interviewed by Journalist Sophie Durocher.
The interview in French covers all the key elements of the New Brunswick approach, which focuses on early treatment of the disease, as recommended by Professor Raoult and his team.
An interesting feature of the New-Brunswick approach is that patients will be monitored via tele-medicine. So only cases that require it will be hospitalized.
Dr Girouard explains how several committees, including ethical and medical, reached that decision.
He explained that a register of patients has been created, and that the research will rely on the register to evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment.
He also explained that there wouldn’t be any patients who would be administered placebos – something that he admitted may be polemical.
He explained that medical studies can be conducted in different ways. Yes there are randomized studies, but he considers studies based on retrospective cohorts to have a good value.
« If we prefer waiting randomized controlled studies, it is very possible that the storm will be behind us and that we will be too late. » >> COVID-19 Clinical Trials: Are Physicians Violating the Helsinki Ethical Principles?
« For us, what we have decided looks like the right thing to do, if we use our judgement of medical doctor, of clinical specialist. »
He is fully aware that many jurisdictions, associations, groups, universities are doing randomized studies.
« Our study takes a different form. It’s a register of patients. All patients will be treated and we will monitor them. Yes it’s a study of the effects of hydroxychloroquine, but here, we will not have a placebo group. »
The audio of the interview in French, and the article by Véronique Racine, also in French, can be found at this link.
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2020/04/02/covid-19-le-nouveau-brunswick-va-de-lavant-avec-lhydroxychloroquine
Asked why New Brunswick was the first province to adopt the treatment, Dr Girouard said he did not necessarily have a good explanation, but he suggested that the fact that New-Brunswick is a small province helped.
Currently, in the other Canadian provinces, hydroxychloroquine based treatment is not available to those suffering from COVID-19, with a few exceptions, such as randomized research trials conducted by universities.
For certain, we will monitor this and provide more details when they become available.
In first analysis, New-Brunswick is doing exactly the right thing.
Let’s see how the other provinces as well as the federal government will react to the New Brunswick announcement.
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This is all because Public Health authorities in New Brunswick did not interfere with physician led innovation to treat Covid-19 infection. We here have much to be thankful for.
Population density? Like Maine.
Winning in New Brunswick Canada.
We went to stage two yesterday. restaurants and retail stores open, social distancing and PPE maintained, Masks recommended. Seniors and those vulnerable advised to continue to self isolate as much as possible.
All parks open
Fishing and Hunting allowed.
Gatherings ; no greater than 10 with social distancing required.
How many died waiting? Like NY
The trial started April 2. RTFA!
Nobody died... It was pure luck. Nobody comes to the Province of NB and it didn’t spread in nursing homes... Very lucky for that. 79% of all deaths in Canada occurred in Nursing Homes.
How many died waiting? Like NY>>>>>>>>>>>>
No one. Not a single person died waiting. They were put on the therapy immediately with a physical diagnosis without delaying treatment waiting 5 days or more for test results. Immediate Treatment.Early treatment.
The success does not lie.
GFYWAP
The official trail began on April 2nd but the HCQ was being used by physicians off label from the get go.
Nobody comes to the Province of NB and it didn’t spread in nursing homes...>>>>>>>>>>>>
They shut them down early, no entry but staff.
Staff were screened for symptoms every work shift, and also sent home on furlough if tracing showed them part of a possibly exposed group. Any staff discovered to even attend a group activity were fired.Staff were required to self isolate at home regardless of what th e public health orders were..
Its not luck.
Which will make or break the results
NB resident here. Our population is less than that of a single NYC borough and widely scattered. We have no metropolitan areas and no big airports. Corona-chan, like most tourists to the Maritimes, basically stopped just long enough for a coffee and a donut at some place off the TCH before driving on through to Nova Scotia.
Jeez, Newfoundland got hit harder than us.
Not that we aren’t keeping our guard up, though.
Luck didn’t hurt, but doesn’t deserve all the credit. If HCQ cleared cases rapidly, or at least faster than without it, the virus had less time to spread from each treated case. Future medical historians, unburdened with Trump hate, will.credit the HCQ. Had Obama said the same in HIS pandemic, and gotten similar results, he’d have been gifted a second Nobel prize.
What was that all aboot? I didn’t even post to you, and merely encouraged our associate to read the story, and I mentioned it was a trial.
Also, I got most of it, but what is the last initial for in that pleasant little pseudo-acronym?
Good on them!
Candor7 wrote:
“Province of New Brunswick, Canada, as of May 9th, 2020 has had zero deaths from Covid-19 out of 120 diagnosed cases since 7th March. As of today there are no patients hospitalized.
This is all because Public Health authorities in New Brunswick did not interfere with physician led innovation to treat Covid-19 infection. We here have much to be thankful for.
Population density? Like Maine.”
The Coronavirus death toll in neighbouring NS (about 20% more population) is 47. 41 of those deaths are at a single nursing home. 3 are at other nursing homes. Over 90%
LOL. Please excuse me, I am very poor at acronyms.
We have no metropolitan areas and no big airports.>>>>>>>>>
Yes we do have metropolitan areas:
by population as of 2016:
1) Moncton 108,620
2) Saint John 58,341
3) Fredericton 59,405
( highest numbers in that Fredericton zone because of international travel by university students)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_population_centres_in_New_Brunswick
We have an excellent Public Helath tracing system that did yeomans worlk 7 days a week since the beginning of New Brunswick’s Declaration of Emergency. I know one personally and she is absolutely exhausted. Without them the infected people would not have gotten the treatment they needed at the earliest. And New Brunswick Doctors had the right therapy when they got to their physicians.
We are not a big province as you say , in terms of population or density f population but the spread was knocked down in all major population centers around the province.
Also, knock on wood, the stringent quarantine controls at Elder Care homes has prevented any infections in them,that is a huge accomplishment.
So we can begin to pat ourselves on the back, even if we are a very small province.
Nice to see another NB’er Freeper!
Congratulations! That’s excellent news.
I’m in my 4th year living in NB. Compared to Toronto and environs it’s paradise.
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